Darren Rainey
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
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🗓️ 14 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Darren Rainey, a 50-year-old inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution, was serving a two-year sentence for cocaine possession. Having been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Darren was serving his sentence in Dade's Transitional Care Unit (the official name given for the prison's psych ward).
On June 23rd, guards noticed that Darren was suffering from a psychotic break. They escorted him to the showers, where his body was found two hours later. Nearly a decade later, Darren's fate continues to be mired in mystery and confusion...
Episode hosted, produced, and research/writing by Micheal Whelan
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| 0:00.0 | This episode features graphic descriptions that may be unsuitable for all ages. |
| 0:05.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:10.5 | The Dead Correctional Institution, often times abbreviated as just Dead C.I. |
| 0:16.8 | Is a prison located in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, about 40 miles south of Miami itself. |
| 0:23.2 | Dead C.I. is located next door to its counterpart, the Homestead Correctional Institution, which |
| 0:28.7 | houses female inmates. |
| 0:30.8 | Opened in September of 1996, Dead C.I. houses about 1500 inmates, who have all been convicted |
| 0:37.6 | in the state of Florida on numerous offenses. |
| 0:40.6 | This includes inmates convicted of both violent and non-violent crime. |
| 0:45.0 | Many of whom are often roamed together. |
| 0:47.2 | However, some inmates are allowed to live in cells of their own. |
| 0:50.7 | Many of whom reside in the transitional care unit, which is the official name given |
| 0:55.3 | to the prison's Psychiatric Ward. |
| 0:57.4 | Darren Rainey, an African-American man born on January 12, 1962, was one of the inmates |
| 1:03.6 | that ended up in Dead's TCU. |
| 1:06.1 | Due to his schizophrenia diagnosis, Rainey was serving out a two-year sentence for cocaine |
| 1:11.3 | possession, which was set to expire in the summer months of 2012, having started his |
| 1:16.7 | sentence about a year earlier, in August of 2011. |
| 1:20.4 | Rainey was a mentally ill individual who often kept to himself, but whose untreated schizophrenia |
| 1:26.6 | had manifested into odd behaviors for years, including some brief convictions early on |
| 1:32.0 | for violent behavior. |
| 1:33.7 | For the entirety of his sentence, Darren Rainey had been held in the transitional care unit |
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